The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-06-09
OUT.
EFFECTs OF COCA.

OUT.
4 EFFECTs OF COCA.
A strange Product Of the Forests Of
South America.
Consul Du Pre- transmits from San Sal.
Is vador an interesting report upon the use OF
coca in that country and its effects upon the
& inhabitants. He says:
have seen so much recently written of
coca IN newspapers and in medical publica-
tions that am compelled to report what /
nave learned of the virtues of this product
Of South American forests. With leathern
straps passing around their foreheads to sus-
tain burdens Of $50 or 200 pounds on their
backs, I find these little slender natives
reversing plains and mountains with greater
CELEBRITY than the mule / bestride, which
!; travels the hvelong day six miles an hour.
& Native physicians and those of the schools of
Paris, France, concur in assuring me that this
extraor1inary capacity for endurance of toll
9nd hunger is to be ascribed to the use by
+ these viagerOus of coca. Recently the medi-
cal profession in all countries has been in.
dqced 70 study the strange and unique prop
coca when used as an alkaloid. It is admin.
!seered freely to infants, and is the chief in
y00cant OF men and women. Youth through
zmy days are intrusted with the care of
valuable hock Of namas, having no other
i eustenance than that to be found in little
& 1eathern purses containing coca and its COM.
S pounds. indians chew it constantly. Theirs,
IKE the max1llary movements of tobacco
chewes, are ineessant. From thirty to fifty
ts.ns are consumed daily, serving, unlike
ont coca habitual chewers cannot digest
1ood; without it they are unable to ascend
lone d.y; They VII not toll without It;
without II they enjoy nothing without it,
'The Immediate effect Of chewing coca
y pertect insensibility of the interior of the
& mouth. The immediate sensation is that
which one would experience when finding
That his mouth had become great void in
lomcbody else's head. had q dentist apply
tooth, and the effect was as described. In
mans constantly using coca finally lcse the
senses OF taste and smell. They can eat
without repugnance most disgusting fo.d,
~ drink most nauseating draughts. The
e0nntiveness of the mucous membrane has |
been destroyed. When one goes further and |
swallows the saliva impregnated with Juice |
of the coca leaf delicious sensation of |
warmth and of perfect blessedness entirely
pHvades ones whole being, intellectual, ,nerv-
~ m elydum. In doses of fifteen to sixty
1ins ooca produces delightful intoxication.
- Joys transcend in perfect blessedness all
Known human delights. A sensation of
xGhtne1 ffom the first supervenes the air in
- Wild imaginings and fantastic haliucina-
IONS and gorgeous visions and then complete
oonmbtlity. It IL intoxication without
UwanA, without congestion of the brain,
Gyolving . sense of perfect rest. The law
- lEayit.sion y suspended and the coquero
- 1uscuiar system ID stimulated to an ex-
91gdtnary degree; an intellectual excite
ont eupervenes, enabling the possessed"
th1e damon TO watch and toll through
peen days and nights. No dreadful head
e09 moro intolerable nervous prostration
II v the most potent nervine, almost, at
4an's disposal. Its hygienic properties are
uD0osed nom its physiological properties
&9p Spanish n. D., who adds that in hot
eyeseGe onecan use after dining. Especially
oommended TO the feeble, to those who
ave ttanecended limits of sobriety in using
3cuho. IT. virtues should be tested, there
- N tnebriate asylums 1t surely claims
80 exatabihty q many, and taken in
- tudn and snow, and to defy great fatigue,
~ rmtores the forces lost by eIcesses It is
lcpulax1y used f0rindigestion, for disordered
Uomech, Tor hysteria, 6atulency and collie,
1nd ~ t3rms Of intestinal disorders. 1t is used
enfly By toilen in mines, and when one
Eonoheg the mines after marching several
sgs through forests and over mountains,
1tAined alone by the use of coca and
etse, he IL permitted to eat at discretion
sou4h four days and have perfect rest.
eags the writer above quoted. Coca
habitual intoxicetion by use of coca .
eo9ty becomes habitual and incur
enan alcoholism or addictiveness to OPT |
~ consequences. however, are not
ybcQy measured or comprehended. Ex-
ATlA Qnnukank 1roo NJ thsa int